The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-09
IN TIE MANcos cANYoN.
Relies of n PcopIe Who Have Faded from
fhf. Earth " haI n Pro>necfnr sam

Reiiez of People Who Have Faded from
the Earth-W hat n Prospector Saw.
The largest cliff house is worthy of
better teseTiption than l can give but
will Try TO describe il in my own way. IL
IL situate in Bear canyon tso named by
prospectorsl, about three miles from the
MancoS canyon, ON the west side From
the bottom of the canyon il requires about
one and one-half miles walk from IA point
Immediately below il To reach it. In
climbing the cliffs on the route | took
found footsteps cut in the rock, and think
the people who lived here must have gone
up in the same way that did. When l
arrived | found perpendicular cliff about
forty feet high, which 1 climbed, by the
aid of n rope which l threw on to "a small
cedar, Mt the risk of breaking my neck,
but was Wen repaid for my troubles by
finding a building at least $50 feet in
length, six stories in height in the front,
AMI from four 10 six rooms deep into the
cliff This seems to have been "A chiefs
house, or perhaps a Pan Electric director,
or perhaps a doodle man. The rooms were
finely plastered with gypsum, which had
"a beautif-l psnk east. In one room were
stone la>,-- rudely shaped, but after the
fashion Of the shOcmakers last of to-day.
Another room had arrow heads, stone
axes and hatchrts There are also two
kind of loom, in the other shuttles and
other implements for weaving; hut as
10 not understand weaving as we'll as the
anc.ents. 1 cannot describe them. | found
specimens of cloth resembling coarse linen
At one end found n chicken house with
roosts for chickens / also found jugs of
pottery made to resemble our white
mountain quail and think perhaps that
the mountain quail was at one time the
domestic fowl of these ppOnlp
There is also room in which venison
has been smoked. Every building has a
round wafer tank, from ten to fifteen feet
| across, and the larger buildings as many
rs three The tanks vary in depth from
! five 10 ten feet. The Kitchens of these
| buildings seem to have been built weaker
| than any other part, as they have nearly
| all tumbIe.l down, while the other parts
| of the buildings are strong. There are
| bushels of broken pottery in the parts
| fallen down, so naturally supposed them
| 10 be Kitchens. l never found building
/ in which the kitchen was standing, but |
| do not doubt but there are some of them
| left standing If one could be found that
| had not fallen, | think that there would
| be "a great deal of pottery found. In every
| ruin can be found corn cObs and husks,
| squash rinds, bone knives, and curious
| articles that | could not make out for
| what use they Were intended. There are
| one or more granaries connected with
! every building. They have doors and
windows in which slabs of slate are fitted
| To such nicely that a mouse could never
get into them There are also cellars in
which | found large jars covered with
! smooth. Hat stones What they contained
| | can only surfnise.
The buildings were heated with rude
| kind of furnace, IA paSsageway built Of
| stone and cement inside running the full
length of the lower floor, as | supposed
for carrying heat to different apartments
| The walls in some places are covered with
| paintings in which rel colOrs pretiOminate.
| Pictures of men, women, animals and
bir,ls.-San Miguel tColoJ Cor. Denver
| Tribune